it’s people that critize names that make them bad.

I’m like Chris, why do we care about names so much. I do like how my name sounds though. *the first one* which is not Silvermouse lol

I actually love that they named their children regarding “personal” feelings towards it. Apple was something Chris and Gwyneth both loved because of a close friend (coldplay’s tour manager)….and Moses was named after a coldplay song Chris wrote for Gwyneth when they first started dating. (lovely song by the way).

I think they’ll have great stories to tell their kids one day, when they ask…why did you name me that?

I’m guessing i’m the only person who actually likes the names Moxie Crimefighter and Audio Science!I like odd names, I doubt anyone would go so far as to name their child Garage or Toilet!
I think the best idea is that, if you want to play with fun names, is to put them in the middle, after the first name (like Rooster McConaughey did with son ‘Miller Lyte’).
For all UK’ers out there, my son is called (Mathew) ‘Grant Mitchell!-from ‘Eastenders’! People are going too far calling it child abuse – it’s a name they’ve given their child, they’re hardly ‘abusing’ them!

You bet names matter. Everything has a vibration and everything is energy – positive or negative – and every name has its own connotation for better or for worse. Would you name a kid Jeffery Dahmer or Ed Gein? No. You probably wouldn’t name him Adolf either. You get my drift. It’s also a heavy load for any kid to carry a name to live up to – and then present them with the most difficult of life scenarios so they feel like failures in not measuring up to their names. Both the names he chose are within the context of *positive*. Moses was a great man, prophet and leader and an apple is sweet, is beautiful and eating one a day keeps the dr. away. What could be better than that?

Quote – “Could we reintroduce mass English immigration into the Americas?” The independent and non-comformist spirit that you often find there is a joy to behold.

What magical America is this? Non-conformist my foot.

I don’t agree with him. I don’t think people should be allowed to name their kids stuff like Toilet or Garage just because they like the sound of the word.

I have a theory that part of the reason there was such an uproar was because Gwyneth has a somewhat poetic name,and the public was expecting a “ballerina” name that sort of matched that (her mother’s name Blythe makes two generations of this to my mind). I think the public was expecting Angelina, Fiona, Luciana, something like that. The name Apple is not very lilting and I think that is why the public reacted so poorly to it.
I think there are plenty of other celebrities who have cultivated a different image than Gwyneth (and have a different name!) and could name their child Apple with little to no uproar.

the thing that i don’t get is that… Apple’s mothers’ name is GWYNETH, and her grandmother is BLYTHE… non of those are very common name… my name (fay is not my real name) is very unusual (in America) and i’m going to name my babies unusual names… but in the grand scheme of things… it’s MY baby, and i can name him/ her whatever i and my partner want… bah..

if ppl spent half as much time worrying about themselves than they do worrying about other people, this world would be a MUCH better place to live…

I think what some people fail to realize is that our children are a different generation of names. What seems different to our generation will become the “norm” for theirs.

All four of my children have “different” names, and none of them get any flack. We live in a very small town (2500 pop) and my eldest child had 4 other children in her classroom who didn’t have common names. There are alot more children out there with different names than you know about.